Religion letters to the editor - 4/1/04

I love this forum. Much more than a mere spiritual soapbox,
there is often real saving truth contained within. The kind of
heart-quickening truth that has led some North County Times readers
to a saving relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
There has never been a more noble or productive use of the fourth
estate.

That being said, I would add this truth. No one goes to hell for
their sins, or to heaven for their goodness. Nothing we can do by
our own nature, good or bad, can add to or subtract from what Jesus
Christ has already done for us.

From the womb of Calvary, and the birth pains of the
Crucifixion, were born God's greatest and most enduring expression
of love for all mankind, our salvation.

But like any gift, however precious it is, it's of no value to
you if you do not acknowledge and accept it. The gift of salvation
is acknowledged by admission of, sorrow for and turning from your
sin. It is accepted by placing all of your faith and trust in the
provider of the gift, Jesus Christ.

Are you going to heaven? Find out for sure by e-mailing me at
slobigs@san.rr.com
for a
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JOE SLOBIG

Scripps Ranch

Debating the evolution issue

For the past dozen months Dr. Carey Carpenter has railed against
creationism when creation has not been the subject. He is
intuitively correct that the only other alternative is creation,
but that is in his mind and his problem and not the subject.

It is not anti-evolutionists' obligation to defend creation, but
it is their obligation to defend evolution if they want us to
believe that it is scientific. My position is that it is not a fact
of science but a dogma arising from atheism. Evolution is just
materialism clothed as science and as a philosophical construct has
no basis in fact.

Defending evolution as fact from atheistic materialism is an
invalid argument.

Offering a bacterium that degrades PCP for a carbon source means
nothing evolutionary, just as antibiotics do not evolve different
bacteria by increasing their resistance, or that information
transfer makes a different bacterium. There is no evolution to a
higher form, but evolutionary verbiage for the unwary.

The recent wave of same-sex marriages causes one to fear and
wonder where we as a free and moral country are headed. Those who
are advocating same-sex marriage contend that it's about their
rights. However, matrimony is not about one's rights. It is about
an institution, an institution that was created by God in Genesis
2:24: "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." How does
a married couple become one flesh? They become one flesh through
the procreation of children, who in turn ensure that humankind
continues to populate and inhabit the Earth.